Under new leadership, the Oklahoma State Department of Education will rescind a mandate from the previous superintendent that forced public schools to place Bibles in classrooms and incorporate the book into lesson plans for students.

The Oklahoma State Department of Education plans to file a motion to dismiss pending lawsuits brought against the previous superintendent and his office in response to their plans to incorporate religion into public classrooms, the department said in a news release obtained by CBS affiliate KWTV . Their motion comes as the court seeks status updates to those cases amid what it described as "significant turnover among public officials named as respondents," due to new department leadership, according to the release.

"We plan to file a motion to dismis

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